Cancer of the rectum : its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including a portion of the Jacksonian prize essay for 1876 / by W. Harrison Cripps.

  • Cripps, Harrison (William Harrison), 1850-1923.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Cancer of the rectum : its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including a portion of the Jacksonian prize essay for 1876 / by W. Harrison Cripps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    least half the twenty-four hours, and would thus bring them under different influences from those to which they would be subject at home; while, on the other hand, women generally pass the greater portion of their day in the same locality. Modern surgeons differ materially in their views as to the origin of cancer. The widest divergence in opinion lies between those who consider that the origin of the disease is to be sought in purely local causes and those who deem that it is rather to be found in some deep-seated condition of the constitution. Those who consider that the constitution is in fault believe that there is a condition of the body generally, which renders it liable to burst into cancer with some slight accidental irritation, or even without any apparent irritation at all. In fact, they consider that there is a predisposi- tion or liability to the disease, found only in a certain proportion of human beings, and the tumour is looked upon as merely the expressioa of a previous morbid condition of the body in general, analogous to the sudden outbreak of in- flammation in the joint of a gouty person, or the development of bony growths about the joints of a rheumatic sufferer. Dr Payne